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Conan

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1967
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Introduction
Letter from R E Howard to P S Miller
|The Hyborian Age, Part 1
1 - The Thing in the Crypt
2 - The Tower of the Elephant
3 - The Hall of the Dead
4 - The God in the Bowl
5 - Rogues in the House
6 - The Hand of Nergal
7 - Chains of Shamballah
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A series of books about Conan the Cimmerian written by Robert E Howard, L Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter.  This is the core series of books which are all from or based on stories or notes by Robert E Howard.

1) Conan
2) Conan of Cimmeria
3) Conan the Freebooter
4) Conan the Wanderer
5) Conan the Adventurer
6) Conan the Buccaneer
7) Conan the Warrior
8) Conan the Usurper
9) Conan the Conqueror
10) Conan the Avenger
11) Conan of Aquilonia
12) Conan of the Isles
Copyright © 1967 by L. Sprague de Camp
No dedication.
ROBERT ERVIN HOWARD (1906-36) was born in Peaster, Texas, and lived most of his life in Cross Plains, in the center of Texas between Abilene and Brownwood.
May contain spoilers
"Well, I will never, never underestimate a Cimmerian again!"
Comments may contain spoilers
I thought I'd give Conan a try once again.  When I was in high school I wanted to but I like to read things in "order" whatever that may be.  I couldn't figure out where to start with Conan (that was before the internet when you couldn't look up trivial things like that anywhere) so I never tried.  So now I've decided to read just the Lancer/Ace books by Howard, Carter and de Camp.  I may move on to more from here though.

The letter from Howard to Miller was published in The Coming of Conan, copyright 1953 by Gnome Press.
The Hyborian Age, Part 1 was originally published in The Phantagraph in 1936. 
The Tower of the Elephant was orignally published in Weird Tales, copyright 1933 by Popular Fiction Publishing Co. 
The Hall of the Dead was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1967, copyright © 1966 by Mercury Press, Inc. 
The God in the Bowl was originally published in Space Science Fiction in 1952, copyright 1952 by Space Publications, Inc. 
Rogues in the House was originally published in Weird Tales in 1934 and is copyright 1934 by Popular Fiction Publishing Co.
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Added: 30-Jul-2019
Last Updated: 20-Feb-2020

Publications

 01-Jan-1967
Lancer Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Jan-1967
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$0.60
Pages*:
221
Read:
Once
Internal ID:
1740
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-441-11630-2
ISBN-13:
978-0-441-11630-0
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Frank Frazetta  - Cover Artist
CONAN AT HIS GREATEST...
EPIC FANTASY AT ITS BEST


"Conan is the superman - or super-barbarian, rather - into whom the prolific Robert Erwin Howard was best able to inject his furious dreams of danger and power and unending adventure, of combative and sexual prowess, of hot impulses instantly followed, yet a fighting man's code never broken.  Conan is a true hero of Valhalla, battling and suffering great wounds by day, carousing and wenching by night, and plunging into fresh adventures tomorrow.  While the Hyborian Age through which Conan cuts his bloody swath is the most fully realized of Howard's fantasy worlds; mapped, geographically and economically plausible, provided with a stirring history and prehistory covering many cultures, and peopled by kings and beggars, peasants and poets, hags and queens and lusty girls, as well as warriors and warlocks."  - FRITZ LEIBER

HERE ARE SEVEN OF THE MOST EXCITING
CONAN STORIES, INCLUDING THREE
NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED ANYWHERE


Meet Conan, the gigantic adventurer from Cimmeria - and discover one of the greatest thrills in modern fiction!  With important background material, and a new, more detailed introduction by :. Sprague de Camp.
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Notes and Comments:
"The City of Skulls" is titled "Chains of Shamballah" in the contents
Spine has "5" for volume 5 of the set even though it is later numbered 1.

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Author(s)

Lin Carter  
Birth: 09 Jun 1930 St. Petersburg, Florida, US
Death: 07 Feb 1988 Montclair, New Jersey, US

Notes:
Lin Carter (June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was born and raised in St Petersburg, Florida.  He later returned there after serving in the US Army  in the Korean Conflict where he received a Purple Heart.  He moved to New  York City and attended Columbia University in 1953 and 1954.  He worked as  a copywriter for law firms, ad agencies, and book publishers.  In 1969 he  became a full-time writer, editor and anthologist of fantasy & science  fiction until his death in February 7, 1988.

Fantasy was Carter's great favorite genre and the most of his writings were about "Swords and Sorcery".  He began writing stories while in high school with L Frank Baum, Edgar Rice Burroughs and J.R.R. Tolkien being his major influences.

Lin became an editor at Ballantine Books where he reprinted many of his earlier works.  Dell and DAW also published a lot of Lin Carter's stories.

L Sprague de Camp  
Birth: 27 Nov 1907 New York City, New York, USA
Death: 06 Nov 2000 Plano, Texas, USA


Robert E Howard  
Birth: 22 Jan 1906 Peaster, Texas, USA
Death: 11 Jun 1936

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